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at La Grange, and numbers in La Belle. However, practically all of these 
were small ducks, the river being full of lesser scaup ducks on the 13th. 
All fall shooting was poor, both on the Mississippi at Quincy and on the 
Illinois. November 17, the owner of a greenhouse called me up to tell 
me that several screech owls had been caught in his greenhouse. I 
secured them, and banded and released them. One was in the red plum- 
age, one in the grey. On November 18, a hunter brought in a mature 
loon which was one of eleven which passed his blind while duck hunting. 
The same day a golden eagle was shot. It was in wonderful plumage. 
The short white pantalets extended down to the toes; wing spread was 
seven feet, weight nine pounds, length thirty-five inches. This is an 
unusually rare occurrence. Bald eagles are generally seen in some number 
during the winter time along the river sand bars and dikes, but few 
golden eagles migrate this far east. On November 20, occurred a small 
flight of Canada geese, several of which were killed below Quincy. One 
bore a metal legband put on by Jack Miner of Kingsville, Canada. The 
size and wording are shown: 
WRITE BOX 48 
KINGSVILLE 
ONT. CANADA 
L£:SS "VSd 
god aANO GAOT AHL SI aH 

This bird was banded February, 1925. On November 21, a live 
horned grebe in winter plumage was brought in to me. It had nose-dived 
into a wet concrete pavement but escaped unhurt. It was a beautiful 
bird with sharp bill and beautiful white wing coverts. The same day a 
female old-squaw duck was killed, which is the first specimen of this 
variety to be killed at Quincy in fifteen years. The freeze of November 
20 to 25 was followed by a good flight of so-called ice ducks, including 
many golden eyes and one true buffehead. I had a dozen of the former 
brought to me for identification. On the 27th, I received a barn owl 
which had been shot in the hayloft of a farm several miles east of Quincy. 
The barn owl is of common occurrence near our city. Huge stacks of 
bailed straw, a block long, have been gathered to supply material for 
the local paper mills. Behind these bales many barn owls nest each 
year. On the last day of the zero weather, November 30, I was surprised 
to find four kingfishers, many golden-crowned kinglets, thirty-five car- 
dinals, and a flicker. The kingfisher and flicker were somewhat unusual 
for this season, but I believe they have had little trouble during the 
mild winter in maintaining themselves. 
